Joe Baker has a dream. He wants to do 'something big.' When he needs a Gatling gun to accomplish this, he seeks out a black marketeer. The price he wants for the gun? A woman! So Baker kidnaps a woman off of the stagecoach, only to find that she is the wife of the commandant of the local Cavalry detachment. Things get further complicated when a girl named Dover McBride shows up. She has come to force Baker to marry her and return east, as he promised to do four years earlier

一场抢劫事件夺走了一位前警长妻子的生命。这个警长期饱受丧妻的折磨，他发誓找到那次抢案中的七个匪徒，并亲手杀死这7个匪徒。在他的“捕猎”途中，他帮助一对从堪萨斯旅行到加利福利亚的夫妇，而且同时他不得不面对一位他曾经亲手送进监狱的人……